The Sun. — London, England, 1836-01-29 00:00:00

manliness ; elosequalities, of which I have so many living, witnesses be _fore me, that in the old time when Parlia ment was unreformed, and the mockery of the representa tion of 'le people existed, the power and pr o sperity of the nit , ,tion were only, kept alive by the manliness and the strov.ig sense of justice of the people, working through the to'cdium of public opinion.—(Loud cheers.) But let me recal your attention to this fact—when the Reform Bill was brought in, in 1831, the majority of what was called the representatives of the people of England were against it. The majority of the Scotch Members, not the representa tives of the people, were against it. How then did it go to a second reading ? Why, because of the o verwhelming num bers of the representatives of the people of Ireland.— (Cheers.) This is no imaginary matter. I spea k of positive and historical facts, and I am proud that I now stand here as one of that Irish majority ; but what o ther claims have we upiya you for your aid ? Look to the conduct of those Irish Members who are really re presentatives of the people, and point out any vote of theirs derogating from national feel ing, or that tended to the diminution of the human race, or supporting any tax ; look to the votes of those men ; have they not tried to increase your franchise and civil li berty ? Look to the glorious votes that shook the fetters off the slave, and placed the black man and the white on a level with each other, and you will find registered among them the votes of every popular Irish Member—(Cheers) —and am I not therefore entitled to your aid in obtaining a little bit of justice for Ireland ?—(Hear, hear.) By the Reform Bill England and Scotland procured - - accession in the number of their voters. franchise before, but she got a large one by also got eight additional Members : but I I am sure you are all glad of it ; for how cliff( Members are now from the plundering doing Members they were blessed with bef and cheers.) England had obtained a muse Old Sarum, which had two Members, and a tree in it, was not now represented ; but Ireland, instead of an ac cession, had got a diminution, for in England and Scotland one man out of every 28 had the franchise, whilst in Ireland only one in every 131 possessed it.—(Hear, hear.) It may be said that I was wrong in not bringing this point before the public before now ; but I, in fact, did so ; I went to Lord John Russell, and spent a piece of a day with him when the Bill was produced, pleading the cause of Ireland, and I then felt that I had convinced him ; but I had not convinced the Cabinet, and I and Sir John Newport went to confer with Lords Althorp and John Russell, and Lord Stanley. Sir John Newport did me the honour to make me leading counsel on the occasion, and I thought that I had con vinced two out of the three of them that it was necessary some justice should be done to Ireland, for mark, I never asked for more, and I will never be contented with less ; but Stanley, the evil genius of the Grey administration, over riled the opinions of the others, and Ireland did not get fair play.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Well, I then took up my pen, and from that time wrote five livelong letters, which ap peared in the chronicle, and I afterwaids had them printed and a copy handed to each Member of Parliament, but I could not rouse them ; they had too much to think of in pro viding for England and Scotland, and poor Ireland was for got.—( Hear.) But I am not of a habit to be beaten down by any species of oppression —no, I raised the cry of repeal —I hurraed for repeal, and a strong flapper it proved. The people of Ireland rallied round me, and I certainly never knew any measure that had such an impression upon mil lions as it had. We returned sixty repealers to the House of Commons. We were, however, beaten there ; but whether in argument or not I will not discuss the question ; but there was a pledge then given by the Houses of Lords and Commons ; and indeed, I believe, I was also men tioned and denounced in a King's speech ; but there was a pledge given by the Lords and Commons that they would take Ireland out of my hands by doing her justice. The Commons pledged themselves to this—the Lords did like wise. How I honour the Lords !—(A laugh.) You laugh at that, but you all know - how these pledges were redeemed. Well, I now want two things for Ireland, and 1 cannot get them without the assistance of the English people. I started on a fresh career of agitation about three weeks ago. Here Mr. O'Connell went into a detail of his demands from the people of Kerry.and of Connaught, anti of Dublin, the latter being chiefly interested in having a domestic legislature ; if they would authorise him to give up the Repeal of the Union, if justice was procured for Ireland, and their simultaneous assent to it ; as the end was what they required, and repeal was but a means to obtain it.—( Hear, hear, hear.) In Dublin, at the meet ing of the Trades' Union, there was but one dis sent' ent voice, and here he (Mr. O'Connell) now was ready to give up Repeal of the Union for ever, if he could obtain justice for Ireland. He was their fellow subject, not their slave, and he would say that if he could not procure the jnstice lie sought, he had his resource—he would throw himself back upon the people of Ireland. En g lishmen would look upon him with contempt if he ctrl otherwise. They must do so, exalted as they are I;:yend the people of the continental nations, who were gay and accomplished and gallant as their own swords ; and he heard that day with pleasure, what had been said by a gallant officer present about national anti pathies ; but there wa,; no nation that knew with En,2, - - land how to sustain her freedom without bloryished. All her neighbours might take a lesson item her in this re -ITect, and indeed the sooner they did so the better— ( Loud cheers)—and they, who could appreciate justice and freedom, must look on him with contempt—he would not deserve to be reckoned as one amongst them, if he deserted without a struggle the cause of his country.— (?.cud cheers.) The first thing be wanted for Ireland was a settlement of the tithe question. He would tell them his opinion on this suhject. He did not consider that any one roan should be called on to pay another man's lawyer, or to pay for another man's dog—( Hear)----and he did not care two-pence for what might be said otherwise —the doctrine held good as well spiritually as corporally. If a man came into a factory, for instance, and said to the clerk, " Pay me my week's wages ;" and the clerk said , " No, I won't, you have not been working in my factory.." " Oh, but," says the other, " I know I have not. I have been working with your rival over the way, and you must still pay me."' What would be said ? When he was in Tuam he had seen the return of the population, which was 41,536 Protestants, 11,836 Dissenters, and 1,188,564 Pa- Fists. Mr. O'Connell descanted on the injustice of the 1,180,000 having to pay for the spiritual wants of the 41,000, and asked what would be thought if the Papists were the smaller number, and if their -clergy demanded payment from the larger number of Protestants ?—( Hear, hear.) Yes, and if they refused to pay, the police and the army were called out, and the attorneys set at them. He asked Englishmen was that common sense—was it common honesty ?—( No, no ; and a voice in the crowd, " It is robbery.") Some one said it was robbery—he would not contradict him. Suppose, then, they should call it robbery—but let them not do injustice to the Ministry ; for his own part, he thought that every man should pay his own clergy. God forbid he should exhibit any indifference to religion. No ; he thought the more any man re spected religion, the more respectable he rendered him self ; and there was no species of religion he thought less of than that which induced some men to go about vagabondiz ing and attacking the creeds of others. Every man should take care of his own conscience, and not vilify that of others.—(Cheers.) Although these were his (Mr. O'Con nell's) opinions, they were not those of the Ministry, as they wish to keep up the Protestant Church to the wants of Protestants, and to devote any surplus to the purposes of education.—(Hear, hear.) The Tories, however, raised a howl against this ; they called it robbery, whilst they themselves were in fact the robbers ; whilst their eyes were turned up that they might the better put the money in their pockets unperceived.—(Cheers and laughter.) That was genuine Toryism ; if they were really religious, why did not they try to convert the Papists. But it had been said that the Papists of Ireland were so ignorant that they would not make good Protestants.—(Laughter.) But,if that be true, why do they not educate them? But that would cost them too much of their money, and the state of ignorance is therefore preferred. It is certainly an odd method of conversion on the part of the clergy, to live in France or Cheltenham, with their coaches and four, and then send to Ireland for the tenth of the poor man's potatoes. Was it thus they proved the superiority of Protestantism, and, when the peasant demurred, then the logic of the police was called into effect, and Rathcormac would again flow with the blood of the widow's son ; and there have been found me n in England—but they were Irishmen, breathing the air of England—fiends so diabolical as to express regret because there had not been more blood shed.—(Cries of Oh, oh.") But what have the Tories done ? They have exchequered the Irish nation—they have issued 5,683 bills against the people for tithe, and the Archbishop of Tuam had issued a pastoral letter, in which he thanked God for the success of the latitats.—(Laughter.) The in vocation of saints had been considered Popish, but the Archbishop now invokes a set of attorneys. This was the resistance made to the demands of Ireland for justice ; but if the description caused a smile, let them take care they were not approaching too near the funeral ceremonial—the friends of the tithe victims were even now attending the last ceremonies of the slain ; one man had been shot ten days ago for tithes in Limerick—he was a widow's son. It might be laughed at, but he was the support of his mother and three sisters. He had gone out to earn the wages of the week, and was brought home a blood-stained corpse. This was not romance, it was sad reality, and though lat terly such occurrences had been made the subject of ridi cule, yet the unfortunat e mot h er has since gone ma d , an d screaming through the country, and yet all this occurred in the name of religion. Englishmen, is this religion ? Men of Birmingham, is this to continue ?—(Loud cries of " No, no.") Some person had spoken of, or alluded to, Sir Francis Burdett, and called him a woman ; but he would take the stain off the sex—he was ao Woman, for he had no heart ; and he would now appeal to the sisters and the daughters and the wives in Birmingham, and ask them would they allow the sons of Irishmen to perish in the ex action of an odious impost? He would relate to them one heart -sickening instance. A little girl, named Bridget Doyle, aged about eleven years, was playing with her com panions before the cabin of her grandfather, who was and had lost the richest enjoyment in nature except, to him, that of hearing the voice of his grandchild. He asked her to accompany him to walk ; her playmates said—" Oh, don't mind him, remain with us ;" but she preferred the call of affection and duty, and went with the old man along a sunny bank, when the firing commenced at a distance, and the child was shot dead. She did not hear the shot, for she fell into the arms of the poor old blind man, and her heart's blood dropped warm into his hands. Englishmen are these things to continue ?—(No, no.) But they will, if Peel and Wellington again come into power.---(Hear.) Mr. O'Connell then impressed upon them the necessity of unanimity. He did not care who was the leader: they would rally round him, as it was worth while to sacrifice a little to obtain justice for Ireland. He then alluded to his Hon. Friend the Member for Middlesex, who he was happy to see look so well, and who possessed one hundred-and-fifty horse power of calculation, which, whilst a single tax re mained, would be applied to it for the benefit of the coun try.—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr. O'Connell then pro ceeded to show the necessity of Corporate Reform for Ire land. Scotland had got an ample measure of reform. and -A had received an instalment ; she had not got 20 in the pound, although the Ministry tried to do so. Le Tories said that he was the great supporter of the y. He wished he was, for then he could turn ,nd say, that he had all the merit of obtaining Cor- Reform for them ; but he was one of those who, in ,mmons, passed an excellent measure of Reform for but that, like in the Persian mythology, they bad a spirit of darkness as well as light . to deal with, and the Bill came down to them curtailed in such a manner as made them feel insulted, and inclined to refuse it ; but when they slept upon it, they considered that they would achieve by it one great advantage—(Hear)—it turned out all the old knaves, all the tag-rag and bobtail ; and con tained another good principle, that of publicity—it let in the reporters—the press-gang were by, and he loved the freedom of the press ; and lie himself was a living instance that no one need care for the abuse of the press, when at tacks were published which were not deserved ; but the present measure let in publicity, and he was glad they had consented to take it. He had seen in Liverpool, that al though they had only received 13s. 4d. in the pound, yet, looking to the result of the late elections, they had made the 13s. 4d. equal to 21. of any other nation's money. He then entered into a statement of the Irish Corporations. Lime rick had 66,589 inhabitants, and but 271 corporators ; Cork had 100,706 inhabitants, and but 2,665 corporators. But it might be said that those were Papist towns. How ever, Dublin contained 364,070 inhabitants, and had but 3,600 corporators. [Here our reporter was compelled to leave Mr. O'Con nell speaking at half-past eleven o'clock. We shall give the remainder of the proceedings in our next.] [We expected that all the Morning Papers would have given the conclusion of the proceedings, and therefore did not send a reporter to the dinner. Had it been possible for our Morning Contemporaries to have acomplished it, we have no doubt they would have done it.]—En. Sun. The Viscount de Chateaubriand, whose account of the Holy Land, in its new and cheap form, is again at tracting the attention of the literary and the learned, is, perhaps, the most distinguished literateur in Europe. This illustrious writer, who was born in the same year as Sir Walter Scott, has produced works in almost every depart- ' ment of letters, but none of more sterling interest than the " Travels to Jerusalem," which contain most faithful histories of the principal places in his route—minute and characteristic descriptions of the City of Jerusalem, of Bethlehem, the D,cad Sea, and the chief objects of Scrip tural interest to be met with in Palestine ; as well as sketches of the inhabitants, their manners, &c. Not less interesting is our author's account of his visit to Egypt, and his researches at Alexandria, Cairo, Tunis, Carthage, &c. The presort is the third English edition ; in France, it has gone through ten. Well may Mack/mod pronounce it "a production of immortal genius." CHANGES IN COURT COSTUME.—The remarks on this subject, that have been lately commenced in the Court Journal, are to be resumed in to-morrow's number of that Gazette of the Fashionable World. It seems that in Paris a grand revolution in female costume has recently occurred, clearly foreshewing the revival of the hoop ! The particulars of this change, and of all the accessories with which it is accompanied, are promised in the Journal alluded to ; together with a reference to the probable adop tion of the hoop-petticoat' as an accompaniment on the part of the ladies—for the material alterations that are said to be in contemplation for the Court costume of private !rentlemen attending the levees and drawing-rooms of their Majesties. Ho LBO RN II i L L.--The prospectus has been sent us of a Con parry for the formation of a new line of level street., to be erected on a viaduct, extending from Hatton-garden to Snow-hill, Skinner-street, and parallel to Holborn-hill. " The plan," the prospectus states, " is to remove tlle houses on the northern side of Holborn, and a portion of those on the northern side of Skinner-street and Snow-hill, extending from Hatton-garden to that por tion of Skinner-street from which Snow-hill diverges to wards Smithfield,. and to form a new line of road by a viaduct upon the site of the houses so removed ; upon a portion of which viaduct a terrace is to be erected, which will be avail able for trading purposes, and under which shops and vaults are to be constructed, the former of which will be equally available for trading, whilst the latter will he suitable for warehouses and commercial purposes." In return for the capital necessary to carry such a plan into execution, they anticipate a large revenue from the rents of houses erected on the line, and from the tolls paid for the privilege of passing over the new line of street. The plan looks ex remely well on paper, and, •if carried into effect, would undoubtedly remedy one of the greatest nuisances of the metropolis. We are sorry to learn that scarlet fever prevails to a considerable extent in Aberdeen at present. On Thursday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, 'an alarming fire broke out, entirely from ac cident, in the premises of Mr. S. Croxon, wheelwright, situated in the centre of the town of Rayleigh. The inhabitants were thrown into the greatest consterna tion, the flames raging with intense fury for more than an Lour, and threatening with destruction the surrounding buildings, which were principally con structed of wood. There was no engine in the neigh bourhood, but a plentiful supply of water was fortunately at hand, and to the unremitted exertions of the inhabitants generally, but more especially to the intrepid conduct of se veral praise-worthy individuals, who greatly endangered their own lives in their endeavours to arrest the progress of the devastation, the preservation of a whole - range of houses is to be attributed. The flames were choked by the roof of the workshop falling in, and their fury abating, the joy manifested by the inhabitants was indescribable.—Essex Herald. THE LATE STORM IN SCOTLAND.—The pro vincial papers bring very distressing intelligence of the effects of the gale on Friday and Saturday. At Kircud bright a sloop was wrecked (crew saved). From Port patrick, also, the following particulars have reached us : Last night (Saturday) and to-day, this, and the whole adjoining coast, were unexpectedly visited by violent gales, and very heavy squalls, with a tremendous sea—wind from W.S.W. and W. by N. The schooner, William Allison, from Belfast, for Kingston, Jamaica, was observed beating up in great distress, and in spite of every exertion, finally came in contact with the dangerous rocks about two miles to the south of this place, where she now lies a hopeless wreck. Six persons escaped, but two, I regret to add, were drowned, and difficult as it is, from the effects of the spray, to denote distant objects distinctly, two men and a woman still remain on board ; but they will be reached and landed at sunset, when the tide recedes. At half-past four, three hours after the wreck of the schooner, a small brig came in here without any canvass set ; the crew, three in number, were saved, but the vessel will go to pieces. Every assistance was given in both cases to save human life. The crew of the wrecked sloop, which belonged to Caernarvon, in Wales, and was freighted with fishing salt for Killybeggs, in Ireland, were saved. All accounts agree in describing the storm, both by sea and land, as most fearful. In Dumfries and Maxwelltown, very few tene ments escaped unscathed. MRS. TROLLOPE'; NEW WORK.—" Our readers will find both amusement and instruction from the perusal of Paris and the Parisians in 183.5? To this now cele brated lady we say, with equal good faith and good will, go on and prosper. Let every succeeding offspring of your pen show us an improvement equal to that visible in the present volumes ; and not only shall we become your ad mirers, but you will end in converting your former enemies to admiring friends. Mrs. Trollope has given us two vo lumes with an amusing and entertaining description of the Parisians, whose domestic manners she places before us more distinctly and with greater freedom from national pre judice than any previous writer. The Abbe Auzou is quite a new feature of Parisian society, for the knowledge of which we are indebted to Mrs. Trollope.”—Courier. It has been calculated that the sum spent during a few years in drink, by a working man of this town, who is now reduced to beggary, amounts to the enormous sum of 800/. This fact was related to our informant by the man's master, who made the calculation, havi ng b een i n f ormed b y the man himself of the daily quantity of spirits which he drank !--Jersey Herald. IRELAND. THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE.—MR. O'CONNELL. On Sunday, a meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Andrew, was held in Westland-row Church, for the purpose of taking into consideration the accounts connected with the erection of the church and the parochial house, and also to make arrangements for collecting such addi tional sums as are required for the completion of the work. Mr. O'CONNELL, in the course of his speech, said—l am anxious to see the day when no one class of religionists will be taxed to pay the clergy or erect the churches of another class.--(Loud cheers.) We have no law to tax Protes tants, and yet many of them have voluntarily taxed them selves to aid us in the erection of this edifice.—(Cheers.) The same remark applies to the Protestant Dissenters ; and though they have no power to tax us, none of them ever applied to me for assistance in the erection of their houses of worship that I did not give my contribution, small as it might be, with cheerfulness.—(Loud cheers.) I would not, however, give one penny on compulsion, and I never will.—(Loud cheers.) It is a disgrace to be required to do so, and I will never pay one penny until some article of mine is seized and sold.—(Cheers.) Let no man tell me that we should have no churches, if the State did not compel us to build them. I would bring such a man into this Westland row.--(Cheers.) I would say to him, do not the good effects of the voluntary principle appear here ? I❑ about three years we have received 14,5171. Gs. 30. (" Hear," and cheers.) I would not give up even the half penny, for I love that better than all.—(Cheers.) Here is the edifice erected without one penny being collected in the shape of tax—(Cheers)—without being contaminated with anything compulsory.—(Cheers.) Last year we owed more than we do this : we are completing the work, and dimi nishing our debt (Cheers) and when the whole is finished, we shall not owe one penny. (Cheers.) As we get nearer the completion, the more liberal will be the subscriptions ; for those who at the outset despaired of success, would lend their strenuous efforts to crown it, when they saw it so near its accomplishment.--(Cheers.) It only wanted a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull altoge ther to complete the work. The voluntary principle would work well in England, Ireland, and Scotland ; for if peo ple would not build churches for themselves, they had little sense of religion. What use was brickwork if they had not a strong religious feeling. I remember Goulburn, who has a view both ways—( Laughter)—boasted iu Parliament of the number of churches they had built as a proof of the in crease of Protestantism : and I remember saying that they were trying, it appeared, to catch Protestants in these traps of churches. (Laughter.) But it is not in these traps that they would catch the Irish people.—(Cheers.) But here in a temple raised by our own hands, it is right to say, for the honour of the poor, that their contributions have exceeded ten to one the contributions of the richer classes. I wish not this to be taken as a reproach against the rich ; and I hope they will take it out of my power to repeat the allusion.—(Cheers and laughter.) He had a lively interest in the temple in which they stood.—(Cheers.) As soon a s the vaults were finished he intended to purchase one. He could not but deeply feel that we are herehut for amoment and (added the learned gentleman) though I am here for a short time, I cannot but remember that in the vaults below what remains of me will rest for centuries.—(Great sensa tion.) With startling emotion we all must think of the future. I hope it will be one of felicity. It may be one of ineffable woe, but we best can meet it by serving faithfully our God and our King. The latter part of Mr. O'Connell's address was heard with the deepest interest. The meeting shortly after separated. DESTRUCTION OF A WESLEYAN HOUSE OF WORSHIP BY FIRE.—On Wednesday morning the new preaching house at Derrygonnelly, belonging to the Primitive Wes leyan Methodist Society, was destroyed by fire, together with a number of valuable books. We believe it is en tirely attributable to accident, as some boys had been burning shavings, which speedily fired the building.—Fer managh Reporter. The Tipperary Free Press states that on Monday a Carrickbeg policeman, named Fitzgerald, was shot through the heart by a policeman named O'Connell. The entire of the reserved stock of the National Bank of Ireland was sold in London last week to large capi talists. Ti:e amount of profit made by the bank in one week by the premium on shares exceed eighteen thousand pounds. The premium on the shares of this bank is now 33 per cent. in the London market.—Dublin Register. MIIRDEII.—On Thursday a poor widow named Quirke, who resided on a small farm near Kilmoyler, between Cahir and Bt.esha, was about to be married for the third time, contrary to the wishes of the relatives of her former hus band, to one of whom, in_ the event of her remaining single at her demise, the farm would revert. The result was that, on the above evening, when returning from Cahir, she was inhumanly murdered. She was found in a ditch a frightful spectacle, beaten almost to a mummy with stones. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE POLICE-OFFICE.--On Satur day morning, about eight o'clock, during the heavy gale with which this town was visited, one of the tall chimnies of the Police-office fell in through the roof of the building, and instantly crushed to death a fine little girl, five years old, who had been confined all night for breaking a pane of glass in a gentleman's window in York-street. She was sleeping on the guard-bed, wrapped up in one of the men's cloaks, and must have died without awaking! Two other persons were seriously injured.—Bclfast News. THE STORSI.—On Saturday, four lighters sunk in the Lough, and three men belongin g to them were drowned. The names of the men drowned are—John Martin, John M'llroy, and John Straine. The rest of the men belonging to the lighters were picked up by a pilot-boat.—lbid. THE LATE STORM AT PORTPATRICIC—A letter with which we have been favoured, dated at Portpatrick on Sun day, mentions that the storm on the previous day was almost unexampled in point of violence along that coast. Some idea of the nature of the tempestuous hurricane which pre vailed may be formed from the fact that a small fish, which may be seen at our office, was picked up in the street at a distance of 80 feet from the ordinary watermark.—lbid. 9 .) ;Am •ed a considerable England Scotia.. , shillings by that th( am oid ai p • s rate I the Con reat accession ,:be- them ; 1 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1836. RAILROADS. As many persons are prevented from investing their money in railroads, by the vast amount of capital erroneously supposed to be required to complete these undertakings, it may be proper to state that scarcely one-half of the schemes now before the public can ever receive the sanction of the Legislature. It is calculated, indeed, that what with the total rejection of some, and the delay attending other rail ways, little more than three millions per annum for the next few years can be actually expended ; while the mere " de posits" at the Bank of England amount, by the last returns, to upwards of nineteen millions ; and if we reckon twenty millions for other London banks, and as much more for the country banks, here is a mass of unemployed capital, in England alone, of near sixty millions sterling. It was justly observed by Sir Robert Peel ,on the subject of railroads, that we could not possibly stand still while other nations were so rapidly on the advance ; and it is to be regretted, that after the completion of the railway from Manchester to Liverpool had established both the practi cability of such undertakings, and the superior advantages they offered for the investment of capital, we should have remained so long passive. The public, however, is at last roused, and, as if to make amends for its late apathy, patronises every scheme without sufficient investigation either as to its own merits or to the capacity and respectability of its projectors ; we therefore deem it necessary to recommend some caution in entering into the Branch or other minor r.ilways, without a perfect knowledge of the commerce and population of the neighbourhood ; but in those magnificent undertakings which connect Liverpool and Birmingham, Birmingham with London, and London with Bristol, capi tal may be invested with every prospect of the most ample profits ; it is indeed asserted by those best capable of form ing a correct estimate, that the Shares in these three Companies must, in a very few years, be each worth from 4to 5001. We shall, perhaps, be accused of partiality in giving preference to the latter, or, as it is called, " The Great Western ;" but we do so from the well-known facts ' elicited during the Parliamentary inquiry, not on l y t h at the number of passengers out of London by the Western road considerably exceeds that of the Northern, but that the superior level of the country between London and Bristol to that between London and Birmingham, causes a vast saving in the annual expense of keeping up the en bankments. Nor can much more than one-half of the ca pital be actually required from the Shareholders, as the Company have then the power to borrow, which th ey can do at 3i per cent. The estimates, too, are calculated at a price beyond the cost of similar . work on the Birmi ng h am Railway, while the excavation of that portion from London to Maidenhead in the summer of next year, and shortly after of that from Bath to Bristol, will enable the Direc tors, out of the profits of these portions, either to make a very early dividend, or by applying them to the completion instalments.-- From the work, diminish the amount of future From a Correspondent of the Bristol Gazette. FRONTIERS OF POLAND, JAN. 10.—The ex cesses that took place at Cracow on the Emperor Nicho las's fete will, it is said, not be without consequences. The Envoys of the three protecting Powers residing there are said to have delivered to the Senate of that free town a very serious note, in which they render it responsible in the event of such excesses being renewed. They decl are , more over, that if the Senate b e not in a condition to t a k e upon itself such responsibi lit y , they will make a report on the subject to their respective Cou rts, which will induce the latter to adopt the measures necessary towards securing order and public tranquillity at Cracow. Wh e th er t h e Senate have already returned a defini tive dffelaration is not said.—Sivabian. Mercury. CHANCERY COURT.-THURSDAY. KAYE V. MARSHALL. This was an appeal from the Vice-Chancellor, argued yesterday at some length by Sir F. Pollock for the plain tiff, and Mr. Barber for the defendant. Mr. Wigram now followed on the same side, with Mr. Barber. Sir F. Pol lock having replied, the Lord Chancellor would look into the specification, and give his judgment on Monday. COMMON PLEAS-THURSDAY. MEED V. FINN. Mr. Sergeant WILD applied to the Court for a rule nisi, calling upon the plaintiff's attorney to show cause why he should not be compelled to repay the plaintiff the sum of 9/. 9s. 6d., being so much costs occasioned to plaintiff by the negligence of his attorney, in committing an irregularity in the following manner :—The defendant, an attorney, owed plaintiff some money, which he directed his attorney to apply for, telling him at the same time that the defendant was an att orne y o f th e C o urt, and instructing him to shape his proceedings accordingly. A correspondence ensued, pending which plaintiff's attorney issued bailable, and con sequently irregular, process against defendant. The debt and costs were subsequently paid. Defendant, nevertheless, was arrested and held to special bail, plaintiff's attorney, though having had notice of this, having neglected to coun termand the arrest, and discontinue the proceedings. The defendant, upon application to the Court, was discharged from the arrest, and the plaintiff obliged to pay the costs. The COURT thought the plaintiff's remedy was by an action, but would nevertheless grant the rule. CHAPMAN V. GATCOMBE. ..... _ _ This was a motion for a new trial in a case in which, upon a claim to certain tithes, the plaintiff had a verdict. In 1816 Wrn. Gatcombe, upon the marriage of his son Jo seph with the defendant, settled upon them by a deed of lease and release certain lands, " with all advantages, emo luments, hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever, be longing or in any way appertaining, to said lands, with all his estate, right, interest, property, claim, and demands thereto and therein." The tithes of these lands were, shortly before this settlement, redeemed by the grantor from the Marquis of Downshire, the lay impropriator. In 1820 Joseph Gatcombe died, leaving his widow, the present de fendant, when his sister, plaintiff's wife, became his heir at law. The question was, whether by the marriage settle ment the tithes passed with the land. Mr. CROWDER supported the verdict. Mr. ERLE appeared for the defendant. The COURT were of opinion that the verdict in this case must stand. KING'S BENCH.-THURSDAY. THE KING V. J. WING. Mr. KLLLY appeared to show cause against a rule for a mandamus to the defendant, commanding him to restore John Cirkett to the office of parish clerk of a parish in Bed fordshire. The COURT directed that the rule should be enlarged. THE KING V. WATSON. Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER appeared to show cause against a rule, calling on the defendant to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to him, commanding him to pay over the sum of 1,0951. to Mr. Parker, the present steward of the Court of Requests of Sheffield and Eccleston. The COURT thought the mandamus should go in order to bring the facts and the law of the case fully before their Lordships. EX PARTE SALOMONS. Sir F. POLLOCK, on behalf of Mr. Salomons, moved for a rule to show cause why an information, in the nature of a quo warranto, should not be issued against Mr. Humphery, calling on him to show by what authority he exercised the office of Alderman of Aldgate. The affidavit on which he rested his application stated the custom by which the Wards of the city of London elected Aldermen, and then stated that on the 16th of November, 183.5, the applicant was elected an Alderman of the Ward of Aldgate. After the election a notice was served upon him to attend the Court of Aldermen at a certain time, and to take upon himself the office of Alderman, and to take the oaths, &c. He appeared before the Court personally on the 3d of December, and ex pressA his readiness and his desire to be sworn, and re-de. mantled to be admitted to take his seat as an Alderman of the ward. He was then asked whether he would sign the declaration required by the 9 Geo. I V., c. 17, s. 2, which he declined to do. Neither the Mayor nor any Aldermen then present objected to the applicant on any ground of dis qualification, but, on the contrary, several expressed them selves highly as to his personal qualifications, but on his declining to subscribe the declaration in question they decided that his election was void. He then and there asked for time to confer with his Counsel on the subject ; but the application was •refused, a precept for a new elec tion, dated the sth of December, was issued, and Mr. Humphery was afterwards elected, and was then admitted by the Court of Aldermen, though the applicant protested against his admission, and claimed the scat for himself. Upon these facts it was clear that Mr. Salomons was entitled to a rule.—The Court granted the rule. BAIL COURT. GOODMAN V. LORDS GLENTWORTII AND TORRINGTON. His LORDSHIP having intimated his intention of giving judgment in this case, Mr. PLATT observed that the parties were about, he understood, to arrange the matter ; and he had only, there tore, to beg of his Lordship to abstain from making any comments on the ease. His LORDSHIP always felt satisfaction in being called ❑pon to comply with such a suggestion. SHERIFFS' COURT.-THURSDAY. COLLINS V. LAWES. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a tailor in Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, against the defendant, a bill-broker in Lombard-street, to recover damages for malicious arrest. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 40s. Loss OF THE BRIDE.—We feel unfeigned s,J.row n communicating to our readers the followi.ig affecting statement of the loss of the ship Bride, Captain Bennett, on her passage from Miramichi to this port, and the loss of most of the crew. It has been received by Messrs. Wilson, Hudson, and Co., in a postscript to a letter received from Captain Wharton, of the Swift, of this port, dated Rotter dam, Jan. 19, 1836 :—" I have opened my 1 Ater to an nounce the appalling intelligence of the loss of the Bride, of Hull, with twelve of the crew. The survivors arc the car penter and James Russell. Captain Bennett died fifteen days previous to the vessel being fallen in with. The sufferers on board were then in such a state as not to be able to take hold of a rope thrown to them ; they had been 21 days on the wreck, and had sustained life by gnawing from time to time the dead bodies of their shipmates, and drinking salt water. The vessel, with survivors, has arrived in the Texel from Cuba."—Hull Gazette. THUNDER STORM. —On Friday evening, the 15th instant, the town of Cheadle (Staffordshire) was visited by a thunder-storm. The electric fluid struck the roof of a house at the top of Charles -street, shivered many tiles, and in its progress broke much glass, and part of the window frames below. The stone window heads were broken. Fortunately the family were not in that part of the house, and were not injured. A young man, standing at the door of the next house was knocked down, but received no other injury. The chimney of a public house was struck by the electric fluid, which passed down the chim ney, and filled the house with flame and sulphur! There were ten or a dozen men drinking in the house, and their alarm and consternation may be conceived, but cannot be described. The landlady, who had an infant on her knee, ran out, supposing that the child was killed, but that was no t the case ; the moth er was slightly burnt, and also one of her little daughters ; the rest were uninjured. The out ward wall of the house suffered some damage. Two houses in Well-street were also struck, the fluid passing out of one house into the other, but the inmates escaped unhurt. AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.-011 Monday, the 4th instant, two poor women, .sisters, of the name of Mac kenzie, residing at a house Tarradale-moor, in Ross shire, were found together in bed, both quite dead. Mar garet, the eldest, had been confined to her bed for a few days previous ; Mary, the younger, was of weak mind ; she had been seen out of doors two o r three days before. On Saturday, a relation, who lives at a short distance from the spot, c alled at the cottage, and found the imbecile sister sitting by the fire, and the other in bed, but he did not hear the latter speak. Two days afterwards he called again, but there was none to receive him. The door was fastened— no person could be seen by looking in at the window, and no smoke issued from the chimney. He broke open the door, and on going to the bed he saw the females lying to gether dead. There was no appearance of struggling or violence ; a few handsful of oatmeal, and one or two salt herrings, were found in the house. Next day the remains of the deceased (who were both elderly and unmarried) were interred in the same grave, in the church-yard of Tarrad ale.—lnverness Courier. TIIE LOST HUSBAND.—A lady of the department des Ardenne offers a reward of 1,500 francs to any person who will bring back her husband, who has been missing since M a y, 1834, or to any one who will make known his place of retreat. He is thus described :—age 49, height 4ft. 2in., complexion tan colour, eyes gray, head bald, hair and beard bl ac k, nose inclining to a red, face rather pale, scar on the left cheek in form of a V, and very deaf.—French Paper. [This lady must have an odd tastis. We suppose she keeps a miniature museum of zoological absurdities, and wishes to preserve so eccentric a specimen of the genus humanism.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. TIIE DERBY. l to 2 agst Lord Jersey's lot—offered 10 to 1 agst Ld Jersey's Bro. to Nell Gwynne—taken freely 12 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Mummy—offered 1.7-? to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Maria—offered 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Babel colt—offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Taishtcer—offered 25 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Brother to Emiliana—offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Gladirtor—taken The brother to Nall Gwynne was backed for 200/., and two or three parties were anxious to get on upon the same terms, but could not succeed; the room was thinly attended, and business flat. Scott's horses have left their training ground in the north for Newmarket, where they will arrive in the early part of the ensuing week. They consist of the following : DERBY HORSES. Lord Chesterfield's Babel colt. Lord Chesterfield's Weighton. Mr. Bowes's Brother to Maria. Mr. W. Scoq's Gladiator. OAKS FILLIES. Lord Wilton's Grenada (Bequest filly). Lord Chesterfield's filly by The Colonel, out of Miss Clifton, Lord Chesterfield's filly by Emilius, out of Rowton's dam. Mr. W. Scott's Skilful. FOUR-TEARS-OLD AND UPWARDS. Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus. Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea. Mr. Bowes's Mundig. Mr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus. Mr. Ridsdale's Luck's All. A colt by Velocipede, out of Revolution's dam. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. __ - - - _ The Thanet Harriers meet on Monday at Monktdn Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills ; Friday, at Nash Court Hill—at 10. The Brighton Harriers meet every Monday at Patcham ; Wed nesdays, at the Race Course; Fridays, at the Dyke. The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill; Wed nesdays, at Lewes Racs Course ; Fridays, at Telacombe Tye—half past 10. Mr. Meynell's Hounds en Tuesday at Keddleston ; Thursday, at Swarkstone ; Saturday, at Langley—half-past 10. The Marquis of Hastings' Hounds on Wednesday at Cavendish Bridge ; Saturday, at Bunny—half-past 10. The Devizes Harriers on Tuesday at New Coppice ; Friday, at South Down-11. Mr. A. Smythe 's Hounds on 'Monday of Oare Hill ; Tuesday, at New Mill ; Thursday, atWilster Wood ; Friday, at Penton-•.11. Mr. W. Horlock's Hounds on Monday at the Star, Marshfield Down ; Wednesday, at Beckhampton Inn ; Friday, at Freshford— half-past 10. Mr. Portman's Hounds on Monday at Shillington ; Thursday, at Stalbridge Park—hf-past 10 Mr. Hall's Hounds on Tuesday at Chaffcombe Wood; Wednes day, at Bow Gate ; Friday, at Hatch Court ; Saturday, at High Ham--half-past 10. The Charborough Hounds on Monday at Canford ; Thursday, at Pere Wood; Monday, the Bth, at the Kennel—hf-p. 10. The Somerset Hounds on Tuesday at Cocker Coombe ;.Friday, at Buncombe Hill—half-past 10. The East Kent Hounds on Monday at Ashley; Wednesday at Sweech Gate; Friday, at Acrise Mill half-pastlo. The Tickham Hounds on Monday at Snockhurst ; Thursday, at Kingsdown Church—hf-p. 10. Some idea may be formed of the wealth of this country from the fact, that in 1834 insurances against fire were made by the English offices to the amount of 578,500,0001., and that the uninsured property is estimated to be equal to what is ensured.—Scotsman. British pig lead at this moment bears the high price of 20 guineas a ton, being an advance of nearly 100 per cent. upon that article within the space of twelve months, and with the prospect of the price increasing.—Ncweastle Journal. On Saturday we experienced one of the severest storms of wind and rain which has occurred for some years. The gale must have been severely felt on the west coast.— Edinburgh Courant. An English gentleman is stated to have given twenty guineas for a letter written by Fieschi, and addressed to M. Ladvocat. • An official communication has been made to several of the poor law unions, stating that a vessel will sail from Portsmouth on the 20th of February, having on board the Bishop of Australia, in which forty or fifty families—de sirous of emigrating to New South Wales—may be accom modated. About ten o'clock in the forenoon of Saturday last, the roof of a hay-rick, upon the premises of Mr. John Freeborn, of Lucking House Farm, at Great Maplestead, was discovered to be on fire. Engines were promptly in attendance. The wind, however, blowing almost a hurri cane at the time, the flames upon the rick rapidly commu nicated to the other stacks, &c. in the yard, and a double barn, containing wheat, barley, and peas, a stack of hay, stables, cart-lodge, with granary over, two wheat stacks, a barley stack, cow-house, and piggeries, which were all in a blaze at one time, were totally consumed. The •dwell ing-house and several cottages were fortunately to wind ward, otherwise nothing could have been saved from de struction. The property destroyed is estimated at 1,000/. Mr. Freeborn unfortunately started for Colchester market about an hour before the fire brdke out, and did not return until the evening.—Essex Herald. A deputation from the Duke of York's creditors accompanied by their solicitor, waited upon Lord Mel bourne on Monday, by appointment, to confer respect ing their claims, but they have not gained much ad vantage by it, and appear, on the whole, to be far from satisfied with their reception. Lord Melbourne, it seems, is determined to maintain the right of the Crown to the mines in Cape Breton, which have been declared by high legal authority to belong to the estate of the Duke of York, and which were the source, in fact, out of which his Royal Highness chiefly proposed to pay his debts. Neither would Lord Melbourne admit that a right considered by him to vest in the Crown was one to be shaken by any legal opi nion whatever, either now or at any future time. It was only by an appeal to Parliament that it could be brought into question. This the creditors, however, assured his his Lordship that they were prepared to do, and that a very large number of the Members of the House of Commons would support their claims. Among other points which they thought it their duty to press upon the attention of Lord Melbourne, was the promise which it is well known was given by the late King, that his brother's debts should be paid ; but it was very briefly disposed of by the question, put by his Lordship, what value they considered such a promise, under all the circumstances, to possess ? Lord Melbourne promised to confer with his colleague, Mr. Spring Rice, on his return to town, on the subject of their claims, and particularly as to the right to the mines in Cape Breton, but he did not believe that his own opinion on the subject would be shaken by it. He would be ready, however, to confer with the deputation at any future time respecting it. Still the impression of the creditors seems to be, that they have now no remedy but by an appeal to Parliament, for which they are about to prepare with be coming activity. Since the question of their claims has lately been revived, most of the large creditors, who were before disposed to abandon them as desperate, have imbibed new hopes on the subject, and are determined to co-operate most zealously with the rest in bringing them once more forward to public notice, and they receive support from so many quarters that they are not without hope that this stigma on the memory of a member of the Royal Family will be removed, and their . ,elaims ultimately paid in full.— Morning Paper. SHIPWRECK AND MASSACRE OF THE CREW.— We formerly copied a paragraph from a Liverpool paper, respecting the disastrous fate of an English brig, the crew of which, with one man, had been murdered off Salinos, the usual station of the pilots on the river of Para ; and stated that Sir E. Home, the Captain of his Majesty's ship Racehorse, was about to proceed to Para, to investigate the circumstance. It now appears that Captain Reid, of the schooner Clio, of Montrose, and his crew, were the un fortunate individuals against whom the savages had wreaked their fury. The following melancholy particulars are con tained in a letter from St. Louis de Maranham, dated Oc tober 21 :—" Deceived by the land signals, which announced that a pilot was in waiting, but had no boat to proceed on board, the Captain sent ashore his mate and four men, who were murdered by the Indians the moment they landed on the coast. These savages, then, profiting by the darkness of the night, surprised the rest of the crew, who, not sus pecting any treachery, thought the boat was returning with their comrades, and a pilot. All the crew were put to death, and the bri g , being brought close to the shore, was unloaded and sunk. The Clio had on board 4,000 muskets and a large quantity of gunpowder, which will enable the insurgents to offer a long resistance to the troops that might be marched against them from Rio Janeiro. As soon as that catastrophe was known here, the British corvette Racehorse made her preparations to depart, and will sail to-morrow for Para. The Captain declares he will force the blockade, if not allowed to go and bring the revolters, still masters of the town, to an account for the horrid mur der of the crew of the Montrose schooner C/io." A private letter by the owner at Montrose, contains the following : " The Rival is just arrived at Maranham, and brings a little further information. The Racehorse had succeeded in getting the second mate of the Clio, the only person saved. Other two made their escape with him, but were drowned in crossing a river. All the rest were murdered ; the ves sel plundered and scuttled. The Racehorse was still at Para. When she returns more particulars will be known, and transmitted to you." STATISTICS OF CRTAIE IN MANCHESTER. — From 1794 to 1836, a period of forty-two years, it appears that there have been 80,859 committals, and on the average 1,925 per annum. The number transported has been 3,301, of which only 396 were females. Since 1794, it appears also that the proportion of females committed has been on the decline, except for the last year, which ex ceeded that of any other, except in 1825. The number of trials during the above periods bas 'won 9.4.504, of whipli only 150 took place in 1794, whilst in 1834 there were 1,112, and in 183.5, 1,059 trials. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. On Ffiday evening a public meetinn - was held at Greenock to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for a total. repeal of the Newspaper Stamp Duty. gt:veral powerful and argumentative addresses, demonstrative of he impolicy and injustice of T ax i ng K now l e d e were delivered; and w e re gret exceed :ugly that we arc precluded, by th,esingularly crowded state of our co l umns , f rom giving more than this bri et notice of a meeting, which, estimated with a refere nee to the objects contemplated, must be considered most iropot taut. We may mention that the Hon. Member for Greenock Jed:wed his determination to have no half way in reducing the tax, and 11° difference between town and country. He condemned Mr Roebuck's project of making this question the turning point of supporting or o; posing Ministers. Dear as he va hod an untaxed newspaper, he far preferred to see the green fields of Ireland unstained with blood, which it was the desire of t present excellent Ministry to accomplish. Another Gentleman, whose name is not given in the re port, said he was opposed on principle to all taxes on know ledge, as a cheap newspaper was the most useful vehicle of information. He then alluded to the superiority of an edu cated man over one in a savage state, and affirmed that the elevation of the former was more apparent than real, and far inferior to what it would be had not the enemies of human improvement shut up the sources of knowledge. Newton, Watt, and others, were merely splendid specimens of what the species might become; but those who knew better kept them in ignorance, in order that they might plunder them more effectually. They were kept from knowing the laws, and then punished for disobeying them. As well might they tie a bandage over a man's eyes, and then beat him for stumbling- The Government was to blame, for they had the means of enlightening the people, but yet they had kept them ignorant. At the same meeting a resolution pledging the meeting to petition for a full measure of Scottish Law Reform, was also carried. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY• —We have experienced a very good demand for cotton to clay, and a further advance of id. to id. per pound has been obtained in American : the sales are 5,000 bales, nearly all to spinners. On Saturday last a French chooner in her endeavours to get into Dover Harbour, ran against the Pier-head, a nd got aground on the outside. The crew were in much dan ger owing to the boisterous state of the weather—they we've engaged all night in unloading her cargo, and succeeded next morning in mooring her—she is now in port. SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—A gentleman who tons is a Highland glen, but who has recently been on a trip to England, writes us in the following glowing terms :—" I am returned from Liverpool, and the spectacle of pros perity—not the " Robinson prosperity"—that we had tea years ago, but the import of raw materials from, and the export of manufactured,. goods to every part of the habitable globe—from the New World that Canna' called into existence, round to China and the farthest Ind, that are by the present Reformers set free from Tory chains, —why,-it surpasses all that you can imagine. I observed, that in every corn yard after we once passed Lang holm, the top of several stacks were grown green, and, over all that country, there is a great crop of inferior and ill-har vested corn. I saw several samples—all coarser and worse than the grain round the Moray Firth. The consumption of beef, mutton, bacon, whisky, bread and ale, exceeds all that ever was known in any country whether in ancient or modern times. Long continuance to it ! My only other observation was, that sheep were every where in beautiful condition, and the owners, whether breeders or feeders, in great spirits. So we shall hope for another good season anno 1836."—Inverness Courier. DESCRIPTION OF LONDON.—The following graphic description of London is extracted from a letter which appears in a late number of a Scotch paper—" On first entering this monster of a city, and on treading my way on foot along three great thoroughfares that connect the Scottish wharfs with Charing Cross, the weather being rainy, my sensations were very disagreeable indeed, occa sioned by the sublime filthiness of the streets, and the pre cious figure I was made by the free and indiscriminate spatter of mud and dirt with which I was besmeared, by the eternal splash of the omnibuses, hackney-coaches, cabs, &c., as they rattled along in endless succession. The din and clatter, too, of these vehicles, was extremely armor ing to me for some days. From this I expected to es cape at every turning ; but the hope was vain ; for no' sooner had I got out of the noise and bustle of one scene than I was involved in the turmoil and confusion of another. In a few days, however, I became more reconciled to„ these annoyances, and apace I became less " bombeezed , „ and began to look with more placidity on the " fair&s , that presented themselves. The sign-boards were a mcalg the first objects that attracted my attention,—particularly' those of the public-houses ; not, you know, that I am alto gether a slave to nappy liquor, though I can take a social glass occasionally ; but it was the circumstance of ~1 30 brewer's name whose drink is retailed, occuying the fie tire board, without the publican's own being at all visible , that appeared strange to me. As lam on sign boars, I may mention that this system of advertising is carried to the utmost pitch of effrontery in the metropolis. From the highest to the lowest grade of merchants and traders, every species of advertising partakes of the most exaggerated Puf f ; clap-trap, and quackery. Perhaps the grea t struggle for business in so crowded a city may in some degree atone fnr the barefaced ostentation in these matters ; but even this cannot palliate the many fraudulent practises that are in' dulged in to entrap the unwary. Every scheme that can be devised to draw the exhorbitant penny is unhesitatingli resorted to ; and conscience, in their charges, from the ragged urchin who points out the way you wish to go, to' the highest legal or medical adviser, seems not to he re cognised. In short, with the vast majority of the London dealers, in whatever wares, there is little or no c hance of getting your pennyworth for your penny. With little exception, society here, from bottom to top, is composed of leeches : blood-sucking is the order of the day, in almost all its ramifications ; and, unless one throws aside all modesty, and unceremoniously practise the art of extortion and d is ' simulation, he need not expect to " succeed" in Londe"' These are sweeping assertions, you will think ; and they may perhaps be a little too strongiy expressed ; but it 18 my honest conviction, from all that I have yet seen of I.t , that honesty is not the best of policy for a business-man In the British capital. Get money honestly, if you can ; but at all events get money, seem to be the advice that is ge nerally regarded here." SAM NORTH WAY AND THE WHITE WITCH. Most persons who have travelled from Plymouth to Barn staple by the North Devon Telegraph, will recollect Salo Northway, formerly driver of that coach, and but few who do not remember Sam's story of the White Witch—a bug' bear he had raised to frighten the good folks of Bather" leigh. Sam has recently settled at the George Inn in that town, and is naturally enough regarded by the illiterate as seer—a diviner of secrets ; our hero has made a hit during the week, which will at once confer upon him the wizardlo wand. A neighbouring shopkeeper was robbed on Mon day of forty-one sovereings. A box being broken, open and plundered of the b oo ty, susp i c i on a ttached to an individual whose credulity in witchcraft was happily worked upon by the influence of Sam's correspon' dcnce with the White Witch, and the:agency of a;letter bear' ing the Exeter post-mark—the impression of an engraving and the address of Sam Northway—mine host of the George produced his summons upon the delinquent, to return the money before one on Wednesday, on pa i n o f th e Witch's visitation—at twelve the money was placed near th e counter of the shop, bearing m ar k s o f t h e ear th i n whi c A the thief had deposited it, and th e id en ti ca l p e rson ha' gone to the shop to buy salt-fish in order at the same time to release himself from the ban of Sam's sorceries.--Sh fi ' borne Journal. . . (ADVERTISEMENT.)—T. COX SAVORY, G o ldsmit e h' &c„ 47, Cornhill, London, informs the Public, that he off er SILVER WATCHES, on the celebrated PATENT LEVD_„ CONSTRUCTION, (the most accurate on which a watch C 3 *" . be made) for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with all the latest uW provements, i. c. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes' capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, a n d main taining power to continue going while winding up. N.B. If in Hunting Cases, 10s. 6d. extra.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. 131 II 7 7 115. On the 26th inst., at Cluny C as tl e , th e l a d y o f Cl uny Macpbel." son, Chief of the Clan Chattan, of a son. On the 24th inst., at Fairford Vicarage, the lady of the Re °. Francis Rice, of a son. On the 28th inst., at Argyll-place, Mrs. J. J. Stoles of a soJ MARRIED. On the 26th inst., at Embleton, the Rev. Edward Feilde, cumbent of Rock and Rennington, to Mary Anne, daughter u " Charles Bosanquct, Esq., of Rock, Northumberland. On the 26th inst., at Exmouth, Bernard Manning Browne, E 5(1 1 of Chudleigh, to Caroline, eldest daughter of Commissary-Gen era Drake. Dy e„ On the 28th inst., at St. James's, Westminster, Mr. Joseph .14, - „ Sympson, of Banwell, Somerset, to Matilda Sophia, second clang" ter of W. a'Beckett, Esq., of Golden-square. H e nry On the 28th inst., at St. George s, Hanover-square, White, eldest son of R. Hurley, Esq., Whitelands House, Chelsea' to Isabella Jane, daughter of the late John Mair, Esq., formerly '- Calcutta. On the 27th inst., at Romsey, Hann shire, Mr. William Rap' °e Paternoster-raw, to Elizabeth, eldest da ug ht er o f t h e l a t e Ge° . Brounger, Esq., of Hackney. DIED. On the 27th inst. ) Henrietta, the infant daughter of Lord Brn e6 Bruce. On the 11th of September, at Jannah, Bombay, in his 35th Y e .„:: Nathaniel Hornby, Esq., of th e H on. E ast I n di a Company's Ser;ed At Chartres, in Fr ance , C o l one l R o b ert Wh a ll ey, a distingui and accompli , hed officer. On the 28th inst.,aiPeckham, aged 87, Mr. J. Swaine. o r, On the 27th i ns t., at G reat B a dd ow, E ssex, i n h er 73d Mrs. Urquhart. ate the 24th i ns t ., at K ew, age d 78, Ed war d C roc k er , Esq, of the Office of 'Works. byMURDO YOUNG, "I ty 112, Stra n d, at Th e S un Office. No. 112, Strand, in the CO W of Middlesex. „